Billy Firkin, convicted of killing his girlfriend and her lover, plans his escape from prison. His cousin, Frank, comes into the prison regularly to remove barrels of refuse from the kitchen. He bribes his way into the kitchen staff, then bribes the head kitchen worker, Mel, to help him out. Billy's brother, Darryl, also agrees to help with the plan. The plan is simple: Billy is going to, with Mel's help, get into one of the barrels of grease (of course, with only a bit of grease at the bottom) and seal the top with Mel's help. Mel is to mark the barrel with a B. Later, Frank will meet Darryl at an abandoned factory a few minutes from the prison. He will unload the marked barrel, and Darryl with pry it open and rescue his brother.

It all goes well, at first. Darryl gets into the barrel and feels the truck leave prison, then turn into the warehouse. The truck stops, and then starts again. Billy begins to panic -- he is still moving on the inside of a truck. Frank has driven away, and when Darryl opens the barrel marked with a B, he realizes that he has the wrong barrel. It's just grease. In the back of Frank's truck, Billy tries to scream, but he can't get enough oxygen. He will die on the inside of the barrel.

Meanwhile, Mel smokes a cigarette with a prison guard. They were both in on the deception, because the guard's nephew was the man that Billy killed.